Butterfly with Spring Flower

     This is a classic recycle job and I'm so tickled about how it turned out.  The butterfly on this card was drawn by Sandi Huggett (Sandi's Samples) and was one of the freebie images offered on the original Creative Freebie Challenge over on The Outlawz.  While that particular challenge went by the wayside a couple of years ago, I played in it very regularly and still have all the images which were done by Sandy and Anne Fenton.

     I was sorting out old cards I'd made way back when and which had been bent or otherwise damaged beyond repair.  Several of them I tossed into a pile of "See if you can rescue anything from these for possible use somewhere else" projects.  This gorgeous butterfly was the first thing I grabbed to rescue from an old card.   How could I let it go into the 'round file' ?

     I reworked the coloring, adding more shading with ProMarkers and some white gel ink highlights to the roses and buds.  I added small touches of glitter to the butterfly.  I redid the sentiment (same as the one I had used on the original card) and added it to the banner flag shapes, then adhered those behind the butterfly.  Everything was then layered onto the brown, die cut, fancy oval (Spellbinders), which was layered onto the lace doily.

     Everything went onto a square of beige CS which had been textured with my 'Linen' embossing folder and which became the card front.  The border at the bottom was cut with a Cheery Lynn border die and backed with white CS.

     Challenges:
Addicted to Stamps
Brown Sugar
Catch the Bug
Colour Crazy Craft
Glitter n Sparkle
Jo's Scrap Shack
Lil Patch
Outlawz Festive Fridays
Outlawz PAM
Scrapper's Delights

     A new work week has started and, for those of you who still have alarm clocks, bosses and schedules guiding your days, enjoy your week.   For those of you who are retired or intentionally without any of those exterior controls, enjoy your down time.  Happy Stamping.  NanaConnie